Hope Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Hope Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-alcove-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hope Cottage, High Street, Great Bardfield, CM7 4SA
- OS grid reference
- TL 674 304
- Coordinates
- 51.94715, 0.43486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hope Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the north-west side of High Street in Great Bardfield. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It features two bays facing southeast, a rear stack, and a rear extension. The cottage has one storey with attics and includes two three-light windows, each with one 18th-century wrought iron casement that has been altered. There are also two 20th-century casements in swept dormers and a 20th-century door. The roof is gambrel in style and half-hipped at the right end. The cottage is incorrectly marked as no. 2 on the Ordnance Survey map as Hope Cottages.
Local climate
Hope Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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